· Private foundation
The Lichtenberger Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k15 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $718k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $373k
- $250k+1 grant · $680k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $680,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTIN ST LUCIE | $102,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MARTIN COUNTY | $100,000 |
| PALM CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $70,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING | $50,000 |
| TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| CARE | $45,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $40,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $40,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| HELPING PEOPLE SUCCEED | $25,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| LYRIC THEATER | $25,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
56 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $115k · revenue +36%
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $103k · revenue +85%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANone grant, 2018 · $200k
- MMMartin Memorial Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $102k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Parent to Parent of the Treasure Coast Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 98 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Martin Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HPS Helping People Succeed Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Gertrude Walden Child Care Center ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD SALT FISHING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARENT TO PARENT OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Lichtenberger Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · United Way of Martin County Inc · Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · The Fine Foundation · Jessica Humphrey Private Family Foundation Inc · Allen Family Foundation Inc · Mariner Sands Charity Week Inc · United Way of Martin County Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lichtenberger Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Dream Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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